New York: Love Romances Publishing, 1954. Octavo; 112pp. Pulp magazine. Illustrated paper wraps. Covers show a few shallow chips and tears along edges, with some general toning and smudging to surface and "MAR 2 A.M." stamped at top back along spine. Clean 2.5" tear from bottom along rear hinge. A...... More
London: George Bell and Sons, 1884. First Edition Thus. Octavo; Vol I lv + 583pp; Vol II xi + 570pp; Vol III xi + 568pp; Vol IV xv + 469pp; Vol V xiii + 432pp. Fifty-three engravings of portraits, dwellings, locales, manuscripts, and signatures dispersed throughout the five volumes; two-color..... More
New York: Sturgis & Walton Company, 1909. New Edition. Two volumes; quarto (25.5cm.); publisher's half linen over blue paper-covered boards, gilt-lettered spines, top edges gilt; xxxii,576; xv,[1],[577]-1172pp.; photogravure frontispieces and ten leaves of plates (tissue guards), additional illus. throughout text, many full-paged. General shelf wear, spines both rather toned, front..... More
Jackson: McCowat-Mercer Press, 1963. First Thus. Octavo; xxi, 267pp. Illus at front. Illustrated dust jacket with $5.00 price intact; bound in sea-green cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Jacket chipped at spine ends and shallowly along edges. Front flap nearly separated and rear flap halfway so, but both still intact..... More
Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2005. First Edition. Large octavo. 205 pp. Black and white photographs. Glossy illustrated boards. No dust jacket, presumably as issued. Top of spine slightly crushed and touch of wear to corners. Binding is sound and pages clean and unmarked. More
Severn, MD: Media History Press, 2016. First Edition. Quarto (28.5cm.); publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket; 303pp.; illus. throughout, chiefly in color. Light edge wear, corners very gently tapped, else Near Fine. More
![Item #6029 Letters of James Russell Lowell [Two Volumes, with Charles Eliot Norton signature]....](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/6029.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1580485115)
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1894. Two Octavo volumes. 418p.; 464 p. Frontis portraits. Typed card with printed quotes from Lowell, General Sherman, and Benjamin Franklin regarding war affixed at end of editorial note and signed by Norton. Bound in charcoal boards with spine stamped in gilt. Top..... More
Paris: Garnier Freres, [1870s]. Five Volumes of a seven volume set. Octavo; V1: cxxix, 368 pp, 4 plates; V2: [vi], 507 pp., 4 plates; V4: [vi], 425 pp., 4 plates; V5:[vi], i-xliv, 516 pp., 2 plates; V7: cxiv, 488 pp., 2 plates. Mustard marbled paper-covered boards with brown leather spine..... More
Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1965. First Thus. 12mo; publisher's tan gilt-lettered cloth, green and gilt spine titling; xxxviii,518pp. Cloth and textblock edges a bit dust-soiled, later ownership signature to front free endpaper, else Very Good and sound. Text entirely in French. More
Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1969. First Edition. Small quarto (10.25" x 7.75"); [x], 209pp. Illustrated dust jacket over blindstamped brick cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Price-clipped jacket shows some scuffing and rubbing along edges and surface with wear at corners and spine ends. Boards are square with light..... More
New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1946. First Thus. Octavo; publisher's maroon blind-embossed cloth, gilt-lettered spine; xiii,[1],278pp.; color portrait frontispiece. Slight curve to boards, light scuffing to cloth extremities, slightly later (1960) ownership signature to front free endpaper, else a Very Good, still quite attractive copy. Issued as Vol..... More
College Station, TX: The University of Texas at Arlington by the Texas A&M University Press, 1995. First Edition. Quarto. 693 pp. Illustrated dust jacket. Black boards stamped in gilt. Gentle rubbing to edges of jacket and boards. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. More
Stamford: Glen-Kel Publishing Company, 1949. Pulp magazine. Octavo; 112pp. Illustrated paper wraps. Shallow chips and tears along yapp edges with some very light smudging and spotting to surface. Spine a bit rubbed at head and tail. Pages lightly toned -- moreso along bottom edge -- with a few creased corners..... More
New York: Atheneum, 1969. First Edition, stated. Signed by Robert Friedman and Jerry L. Avorn with brief inscription from Friedman to contributor and Columbia University vice-provost Herbert A. Deane on half title. Octavo; [x], 37pp. Printed dust jacket with $6.50 price intact; book in blindstamped green cloth with gilt lettering..... More
![Item #13842 Edgar Rice Burroughs Tells All [Signed Limited Edition]. Jerry L. Schneider, Edgar...](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/13842.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1660248338)
Rialto: ERBville Press, 2007. Limited Deluxe First Edition, signed by Schneider and numbered 41 of an unspecified print run on limitation notice at front. Tall octavo; [8], [viii], 605pp. White photo-illustrated dust jacket over navy cloth with gilt lettering. Jacket is clean and crisp with light nudging at head of..... More
New York: George H. Doran Company, 1926. First Edition. Gift inscription at front free endpaper dated 1972, "To Bob & Decca, For their prison library from our donate welfare fund, Leah & Jerry." Octavo. 382 pp. Black and white illustrations. Maroon boards with spine stamped in gilt. No dust jacket..... More
Ludwigsburg: Kunstverein Ludwigsburg, 1994. First Edition. From the library of Brenda Richardson. Octavo (25.5x20x1cm); 63pp, including biography and chronology. Twelve full-page color photographs, with 18 additional B&W images, most full-page. All text in parallel English, French, and German versions. Photographic boards; textblock of ivory wove paper. This is..... More
Berlin: Friedrich Nicolai, 1789. "Dritte und ermehrte Auflage." Two volumes bound in one; octavo; contemporary marbled paper-covered boards, all edges stained red; [26],461,[7]; [20],406,[12]pp. (collated and presumed complete); twelve folding engraved plates at rear of Band I, fourteen folding engraved plates at rear of Band II. Boards rather worn, front..... More
New York: A.S. Barnes & Company, 1878. First Edition. Octavo. 450-512 p.; 113-128 p. advertisements. Printed Wrappers. Fold-out frontis map. Wraps are chipped along edges with loss in patches at spine. General soiling and staining. Binding is holding.Pages lightly toned with some chipping to edges. Includes..... More
New York: A.S. Barnes & Company, 1881. First Edition. Octavo. 241-320 p. + 16 p. advertisements. Printed Wrappers. Frontispiece of John Eager Howard with tissue guard; fold-out map of "Seige of Yorktown." Includes notice of the death of President Garfield and Chester A. Arthur taking the oath of office... More
Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1887. First Edition. Large, thick octavo; contemporary sheep over cloth, gilt-lettered spine label; [8],912pp.; twenty-two (22) plates of colored maps, nine of which double-paged. Extremities quite scuffed and leather dried, bottom two inches of front joint starting to split, new endpapers, rear hinge reinforced, 20th..... More
Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2020. First Edition, stated First Printing. Octavo; [x], 726pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $39.95 price intact; bound ivory boards with red lettering to spine. Jacket lightly shelfworn with a small tear at top back corner over flap fold, nudging at head of..... More
New York: Johnson, Fry and Company, [1859]. Folio (16.5" x 11.5"); xvii, 743, 1-122 (Apocrypha), 747-1026. 37 plates with tissue guards including engraved title, vignette frontis for New Testament, and two pages engraved family register (blank). Elaborately blindstamped leather covers with gilt title lettering and gilt to all page edges..... More
[London]: The Nonesuch Press, 1923. Limited Edition, numbered 507 of 725 copies on limitation notice at front. Quarto (11.75" x 8");162pp. Printed in black and red on Dutch mould-made paper at the Kynoch Press, Birmingham. Brown boards with gray / beige cloth spine and small paper title card. Boards show..... More
[Washington, DC]: Georgetown University Press / Sitterding Foundation, 1945. First Edition. Octavo (23.5cm.); publisher's cloth in pale grey printed dust jacket; xxiii,[3],244pp.; photographic portrait frontispiece, two leaves of plates, map endpapers. Jacket quite worn with rather large loss to spine crown affecting text, margins toned and wrinkled, top third of..... More